{{short description|British Archaeologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scholar | name = Sue Brunning | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA|}} | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | region = | nationality = | other_names = | period = | occupation = | title = | known_for = | spouse = | era = | language = | non-academic = | discipline = Archaeology | sub_discipline = {{hlist|Early Middle Ages|Medieval archaeology|Roman archaeology}} | movement = <!-- Should match the ideological movement or denomination (for religious), "school" of thought etc. (e.g. "Anglican", "Postmodernist", "Socialist" or "Green" etc. --> | alma_mater = University College London | main_interests = | workplaces = {{hlist|University College London|British Museum|Portable Antiquities Scheme}} | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influences = <!--Must be referenced from a third party source--> | influenced = <!--Must be referenced from a third party source--> }} '''Susan Elaine''' "'''Sue'''" '''Brunning''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|}} is an archaeologist specialising in Early Medieval material culture, particularly swords, and is the curator of Early Medieval Europe Collections at the British Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/britain-europe-and-prehistory#staff |title=Britain, Prehistory & Europe: Staff |publisher=British Museum |accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref>
==Career== Brunning completed her PhD in 2013 at University College London with a thesis titled 'The 'Living' Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study'.<ref>{{cite thesis |title=The 'Living' Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1416279/1/S%20Brunning%20PhD%20UCL%20Vol%201.pdf |author1=Susan Elaine Brunning |date=2013 |publisher=UCL |accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref>
Brunning is the curator of Early Medieval Europe Collections at the British Museum and was involved in the 2014 exhibition of the Sutton Hoo collections.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/23/british-museum-gallery-dark-ages-sutton-hoo |title=British Museum's revamped gallery casts light on Dark Ages |publisher=The Guardian |date=23 March 2014}}</ref> She advises on the importance and value of archaeological finds recorded via the Portable Antiquities Scheme, such as a silver sword-belt mount found in Culmington, Shropshire, declared as treasure in line with the Treasure Act 1996 in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-47952797 |title=Shropshire Saxon sword mount declared treasure |work=BBC News |date=16 April 2019}}</ref>
She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/dr-sue-brunning/ |title=Dr. Sue Brunning |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref>
==Select publications== *Brunning, S. 2015. "'(Swinger of) the Serpent of Wounds': Swords and Snakes in the Viking Mind", in Michael D.J. Bintley and Thomas J.T. Williams (eds) ''Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia''. Boydell. *Brunning, S. 2016. "A 'DIVINATION STAFF' FROM VIKING‐AGE NORWAY: AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM", ''Acta Archaeologica'' 87(1), 193–200.{{doi|10.1111/j.1600-0390.2016.12171.x}} *Brunning, S. 2019. ''The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe; Experience, Identity, Representation''. Boydell & Brewer.
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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYk0GH5iFYI Sue Takes on the Sutton Hoo Helmet I (Curator's Corner Season 6 Episode 5)] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9vTu73xmE Hands on with the Sutton Hoo sword I (Curator's Corner Season 5 Episode 1) with Sue Brunning] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIFpeBwfvbc&list=PL1ECvgqC3Ba003zo-sjbpUF8NNfoBtWkb Sue's favourite Anglo-Saxon sword I (Curator's Corner Season 4 Episode 4)]
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